Documentary Translation

Why it helps

Festival submissions often require English subtitles, and educational distributors want local-language versions. Translating the dialogue track gives you both drafts in one run.

Step by step

1. Export the film (up to 2 hours), or just its dialogue stem if you only need subtitles — a voiced version made from the full mix keeps the music and effects.
2. Choose text-only for subtitles, or full translation for a voice-over version too.
3. Have a subtitler polish timing and line breaks for festival standards.

Tips

• Interviews with several subjects work best as subtitles, since one voice reads everyone in the dubbed version.
• Processing the dialogue stem instead of the full mix improves accuracy where music is loud.

Example

Cost: 4,200 credits ($4.20).

Limitations to know

• Only for films you have the rights to translate.
• One voice for all speakers in the dubbed version.

Using the tool on this page

• The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
• Only the audio is sent for processing — the video stays on your device — and audio and text are deleted within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
• You can download a translated video that keeps your music and effects, the translated audio as M4A, a transcript and subtitles (SRT and VTT). Every output, step and limit is explained on the video translator page.